Insurgent Aesthetics

Mahwish Chishty, Reaper, 2015. Gouache and gold flakes on paper, 30 × 20 in. © Mahwish Chishty.

Wafaa Bilal, detail from ...And Counting, performance, 2010. Photo: Brad Farwell.

Index of the Disappeared: Missing, watercolor image of Omar Khadr, installed at White Box, New York, 2004. Courtesy of Chitra Ganesh.

Detail from Rajkamal Kahlon, Did You Kiss the Dead Body?, 2009–12. Ink on marbled autopsy report, 8.5 × 11 in. Courtesy of Rajkamal Kahlon.